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Originally Posted by Carl Lyons
... I promise we'll get actors with dirty faces and beards on there soon. This doesn't say anything about the documentary in it...
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A cautionary note concerning the lower right actor/picture"Ralph Villani": I'm sure your ex/retired Navy advisors will agree with me that you would
never have seen a Vice-Admiral (three-stars) badly needing a shave, let alone intentionally sporting a beard, trimmed or otherwise. Crewmembers on a sub, okay...sure...absolutely....but, never an admiral, even if on board a Flagship in hostile waters for weeks or months on end....not before, during or after WWII....and continuing through today. (In the 19th century the situation was different) If anyone can post a picture of a bearded WWII three-star, I'll eat my words/opinion, of course.
Also, please don't take my input as being overly negative...I'd just suggest that you will want to try your best to avoid obvious 'historical' mistakes such as the above...and/or other 'immersion killers'. In that regard, neither of your actors playing Japanese soldiers has the ethinc appearance of being Japanese. One appears ethnically chinese and the other possibly hispanic(?). I'll admit, I've lived on and off for many years at a stretch in Japan, China, and SouthEast Asia, etc..and travelled extensively in Asia over several decades...and speak Japanese and Mandarin... So, I'm almost certainly way TOO sensitive/picky and this 'mis-casting' of 'foreigners' in US movies has been a disappointment to me for a long, long time.
These comments are just offered with the best of intentions as one man's perspective/advice. Please don't take offense.
Looking forward of course to seeing your TV interview, and the movie itself.
